Fake News Sites Are Changing Their Domain Name To Get Around Facebook Fact-Checkers (mashable.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Mashable: In order to avoid Facebook's fact checking system, the site formerly known as YourNewsWire, one of the most well-known purveyors of fake news online, has simply rebranded. The site now goes by News Punch and posts fake news content similar to what it published under their former name, according to a report by Poynter. YourNewsWire co-founders Sinclair Treadway and Sean Adl-Tabatabai, who reside in California, founded the site in 2014. The two completely migrated the website from the "yournewswire.com" domain name to "newspunch.com" in November 2018. Treadway told Bloomberg at the time that they move was made due to declining revenue thanks to Facebook's fact-checking system. Under this program, fact-checking outlets like Snopes are able to mark content posted on Facebook as false, which in turn decreases the site's reach on Facebook. According to the investigation, the workaround has been a success. Content that Poynter itself had found to be previously marked false on "yournewswire.com" was ported over to the "newspunch.com" domain. When shared on Facebook, that same fake news content that now lived on "newspunch.com" was not marked as false under the fact-checking program. Facebook is reportedly rolling out features to thwart the site's workaround.

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[aardvarkjoe]

This is what happens when your "fact checkers" are looking at the source of the information instead of the content.

I suggest that the "workaround" should be to have your fact checkers, you know, check the facts.

Re:What did CNN change it's name to?

[Anonymous Coward]

cnn and msnbc? trustworthy? Sorry, they're no better than fox.

Re:Working on the wrong problem.

[rtb61]

No such thing as fake news, until it is proven to be fake in the courts. Snopes is a fake as the rest, with their own political ideological interpretation of what they believe to be true and what they believe to be false.

US corporate main stream media is the fakest of the lot, not news some real some false, a fake news organisation when in reality they are nothing but corporate America propagandists, along with Google and Facebook and M$, pack of lying shit stains.